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gmonkey42First it was "literally," used to mean the opposite of what literally actually means, then it was "infer" where "imply" would've been much clearer. I think I have witnessed the beginnings of the next trend in widespread abuse of English:
"Recant" means to take back a belief formally, as in "Well, it is so often the way, sir, too late one thinks of what one should have said. Sir Thomas More, for instance - burned alive for refusing to recant his Catholicism - must have been kicking himself, as the flames licked higher, that it never occurred to him to say, 'I recant my Catholicism.'"
"ReCOUNT," on the other hand, means to tell a story (or to count something again).
Saying "they recanted the story" makes you look like a MORONIC TOOL. I saw the writing of two such tools today alone.
I'm worried.
"Recant" means to take back a belief formally, as in "Well, it is so often the way, sir, too late one thinks of what one should have said. Sir Thomas More, for instance - burned alive for refusing to recant his Catholicism - must have been kicking himself, as the flames licked higher, that it never occurred to him to say, 'I recant my Catholicism.'"
"ReCOUNT," on the other hand, means to tell a story (or to count something again).
Saying "they recanted the story" makes you look like a MORONIC TOOL. I saw the writing of two such tools today alone.
I'm worried.
